Official issues : draft agendas, list of participants, draft minutes, resolutions. Relevant subjects: preparation of the 1998 ministerial Council meeting, proposals for programme decisions concerning Ariane-5 improvements, development of a small launcher, Future Earth Observation programmes, navigation preparatory programme, space technologies to assist in the management of natural disasters.
Programme matters: Manned spaceflight and microgravity and draft implementing rules, Euromoon 2000 progress report, inter-agency coordination on ground facilities, frequency allocations for future ESA missions.
Finance matters: Impact of preparations for EMU on the ESA financial system.
Legal matters: rider to the agreement with Conseil National des Etudes Spatial (CNES) on the Ariane-5 evolution programme.
As annex: Director General's oral report on science, applications, manned spaceflight and microgravity, launchers, technical and operational support, industrial matters and technology.
As addenda: amendments requested to the Swedish and German delegations.

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In German: only ESA/C/MIN/134, ADD. 2